cannot modify starup programs

[macdawg]

I'm fixing my roomates computer, he bought it from a friend, it has 80 GB Western digital hard drive with all kinds of crap on it that I'm cleaning, has an FX5900 vid card, and an XP 2600 1.92 Ghz processor.

I cannot access his startup programs from start - then run - then I get

'windows cannot find 'msconfig', make sure you typed the address correctly and try again. to search for a file click start then search'

anyone know how to fix this?

Thanks

 

[U-Toast]

im assuming he has xp? what version of it, did it come preinstalled, what brand is the pc. Mor einfo needed

 

[macdawg]

his friend built it, it has XP Home edition OS that our friend installed on it.

 

[U-Toast]

hmm, well u can always dl the msconfig executable and install it in ur system32 folder, that should work

 

[macdawg]

Wow, he said its starting to run funny, he doesn't know anything about computers, spybot found 259 traces, ad aware found 15, AVG is finding tons of stuff. I might just call his friend this week & ask him for his XP disk to just reformat this thing.

 

[U-Toast]

lol, i see

 

[macdawg]

AVG found hundreds of viruses, unreal.